Berklee College of Music and the City of Boston Parks and Recreation DepartmentJazz at the Fort

Sunday / August 4, 2013 / 5:00 p.m.

Marcella Park

260 Highland Street

Boston

MA

Photo by Pamela Hersch

This year’s annual Jazz at the Fort concert features Berklee Voice Department assistant chair and jazz vocalist Diane Richardson with friends. Richardson’s melodies and lyrics radiate honesty and warmth. Her performance style includes a nod to jazz traditionalists with an appreciation of such cerebral composers as Charles Mingus, Abbey Lincoln, Wayne Shorter, and many others. Her work with pianist Jiri Nedoma, drummer Yoron Israel, bassist John Lockwood, saxophonist Lance Bryant, and percussionist Ricardo Monzon offers the listener a perfect blend of vocal texture and instrumental generosity.